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what's a good part of central park to have a birthday party? like with benches or picnic tables etc.? also if it was rainy the day b4 a good area that's sheltered. one or the other.
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A birthday in Central Park sounds like a good idea.
A great place for a picnic is on Great Hill in the north part of the park. There are picnic tables and it has a very friendly atmosphere because there is open space but if you move a little closer to the trees, you can feel pretty cosy.
If its a children's party, the Ancient playground is awesome and challenging for older children (say 8+) and has a cool picnic table area with the added bonus of chess and checker tables. There are no garbage bins though so you have to take your own out with you.
Cedar Hill is very pretty and airy. There are no picnic tables (to my knowledge - I may be wrong) but there are good boulders that would be suitable for laying out food. It is nice, but if you're going to be loud, there are often readers and sunbathers here that may be annoyed.
Cherry Hill and Wagner Cove are two of my fave places and the cove does have a small shelter. Don't count on it to provide shelter for more than 7-8 people though.
As for somewhere with a substantial shelter, your best bet for functionality and views is the rustic wood shelter on Dene Rock and is rock underfoot, so no soggy grass. Take the time to go check it out, you might love it. The valley extends from East 66th Street to East 72nd Street.
All of these places would be great, but on a warm, sunny day the picnic tables will fill up fast. In a city of millions upon millions of people, it might pay to set up camp very early in the morning (for lunch) or to hang around like a buzzard until the lunch crowd vacates (for dinner).
Have fun!
A birthday in Central Park sounds like a good idea.
A great place for a picnic is on Great Hill in the north part of the park. There are picnic tables and it has a very friendly atmosphere because there is open space but if you move a little closer to the trees, you can feel pretty cosy.
If its a children's party, the Ancient playground is awesome and challenging for older children (say 8+) and has a cool picnic table area with the added bonus of chess and checker tables. There are no garbage bins though so you have to take your own out with you.
Cedar Hill is very pretty and airy. There are no picnic tables (to my knowledge - I may be wrong) but there are good boulders that would be suitable for laying out food. It is nice, but if you're going to be loud, there are often readers and sunbathers here that may be annoyed.
Cherry Hill and Wagner Cove are two of my fave places and the cove does have a small shelter. Don't count on it to provide shelter for more than 7-8 people though.
As for somewhere with a substantial shelter, your best bet for functionality and views is the rustic wood shelter on Dene Rock and is rock underfoot, so no soggy grass. Take the time to go check it out, you might love it. The valley extends from East 66th Street to East 72nd Street.
All of these places would be great, but on a warm, sunny day the picnic tables will fill up fast. In a city of millions upon millions of people, it might pay to set up camp very early in the morning (for lunch) or to hang around like a buzzard until the lunch crowd vacates (for dinner).
Have fun!
How can I make my book better?
Lonnie
I have not quite finished my book yet, I am just starting chapter 4, and am on 6700 words at the moment.
This is the basic story; It starts of with a young girl named Alice, who sets her school house on fire, the beginning paragraph is...
'Ill never forget the day at the old school house, It was everything to me, Everything I have ever loved was in it that night, its scary to think your whole life can change within minutes.
I went out later the same night, I was sat on a park bench when ambulances and police cars raced past me in the same direction as the house, I could see smoke in the far distance, right where the house would be, I panicked, and even though it wasn't my life in danger, my life flashed before my eyes, it was me who set the house on fire.
Was I more frightened for myself, or the fear of loosing everything in my life?
I run, breaking a sweat, not from where I am out of breath, but from where I am so nervous of getting caught, I stutter back and fall to the floor, my face wet with tears. Minutes passed which felt like hours and the fires were finally out. There were no survivors.'
She then goes back to the school house when she's older, and finds a homeless man living in there, She takes him to a shelter and falls in love with him over time. She finds out facts about him, such as when he was younger his mother got raped in front of him, and problems he faced such as; having anxiety and eating disorders. He also had no friends and was bullied and targeted at school. Through out their relationship, he doesn't invite her anywhere he goes, she begins to get suspicious, so one night she follows him to a cabin in the woods. She goes in when he leaves and finds a diary, it contains entry's of whom and how he has killed. His book is like his trophy. She hears him coming back so she hides under a table with a cloth on whilst he is killing a woman. She is forced to listen to the man she loves kill an innocent woman.
This is the basic story, Is there anything any one would do to improve this? Anything anyone would take out? I would appreciate any feed back, and will rate and choose best answers as soon as possible, Thankyou so much.
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Well I must say that's a pretty bleak ending. It also makes me wonder why he's homeless if there's a cabin where he can go and do his killings? Right now it seems a little random that he's a serial killer, unless deep down he had been planning to kill her all along as well. The ideas are interesting, but seem to need a little more developing in order to be believable. You don't want it to seem like packing tragedy into a story - she has to be really affected by things or it ceases to be her story and then it becomes his. Unless you use both their points of view.
It's up to you. One thing I do suggest is just starting it at the inciting moment where something happens. 'I remember' is kind of stalling when it's more involving to read a story as things happen in-the-moment. Just some advice, anyway - unless you make the 'now' moment important and she flashes back. 'Water for Elephants' does that very craftily, but usually it's more intriguing (and easier) to write in a linear way. Just my thoughts for what they are worth, anyway.
Keep working on it and good luck!
Well I must say that's a pretty bleak ending. It also makes me wonder why he's homeless if there's a cabin where he can go and do his killings? Right now it seems a little random that he's a serial killer, unless deep down he had been planning to kill her all along as well. The ideas are interesting, but seem to need a little more developing in order to be believable. You don't want it to seem like packing tragedy into a story - she has to be really affected by things or it ceases to be her story and then it becomes his. Unless you use both their points of view.
It's up to you. One thing I do suggest is just starting it at the inciting moment where something happens. 'I remember' is kind of stalling when it's more involving to read a story as things happen in-the-moment. Just some advice, anyway - unless you make the 'now' moment important and she flashes back. 'Water for Elephants' does that very craftily, but usually it's more intriguing (and easier) to write in a linear way. Just my thoughts for what they are worth, anyway.
Keep working on it and good luck!
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